thankful - Story 149922 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows of the hospital room, a drumming soundtrack to Amelia’s churning anxiety. The test results. They hung in the air, a silent accusation. A knock broke through her thoughts, and a doctor entered, a file in her hand. Amelia braced herself.

“We’ve got some news,” the doctor began, her voice carefully neutral. Amelia squeezed her eyes shut, steeling herself for the worst. The doctor continued, saying the thing that had been plaguing her was, in fact, confirmed. And… there was another.

When the doctor mentioned the possibility of a support group, Amelia felt a strange loosening in her chest. A deep breath filled her lungs, and she smiled, a genuine, unguarded smile that she hadn't realized she had been holding back. The storm outside seemed less menacing now.

Emotion: thankful

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.50 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -0.83

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion thankful. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 thankful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the thankful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the thankful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`happy`	0.493
`மகி`	0.487
`grateful`	0.461
`mutlu`	0.452
`feliz`	0.431

Suppressed:

`[]`	-0.482
`😖`	-0.478
`😣`	-0.467
`😫`	-0.461
`worse`	-0.450